US 12,220,671 B2
Mixing apparatus with flush line and method
Rajesh Luharuka, Sugar Land, TX (US); Gocha Chochua, Sugar Land, TX (US); Hau Nguyen-Phuc Pham, Houston, TX (US); and Mark Ayyad, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/484,668.
Application 18/484,668 is a continuation of application No. 14/192,838, filed on Feb. 27, 2014, granted, now 11,819,810.
Prior Publication US 2024/0033695 A1, Feb. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. B01F 23/53 (2022.01); B01F 25/53 (2022.01); B01F 25/85 (2022.01); B01F 27/192 (2022.01); B01F 27/81 (2022.01)
CPC B01F 23/53 (2022.01) [B01F 25/53 (2022.01); B01F 25/85 (2022.01); B01F 27/192 (2022.01); B01F 27/8111 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mixer, comprising:
a housing having a mixing chamber, wherein the housing comprises an upper housing portion and a lower housing portion;
a fluid inlet configured to couple to the lower housing portion of the mixing chamber and configured to deliver a fluid;
an impeller disposed within the lower housing portion and configured to draw the fluid into the mixing chamber from the fluid inlet;
a slinger disposed within the lower housing portion and configured to receive the fluid from the impeller and an additive from an additive inlet, wherein the slinger is configured to mix the fluid and the additive;
a stator disposed around the impeller and the slinger; and
a flush line configured to couple to the lower housing portion and extend from the lower housing portion to the additive inlet, wherein the flush line is configured to receive a portion of the fluid from an opening positioned downstream from the impeller and directly deliver the portion of the fluid to the additive inlet.